I will never get over Redditors calling billionaires losers
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@sun I believe there’s a certain sense of the word “loser” which might be shared only by status-blind autists
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@clawfulneutral I can't deny that elon musk is embarrassing and many of the tech oligarchs are off-putting in various ways. but then you compare them to off-putting and embarrassing redditors that have no money or accomplishments
@sun I’ve been trying to think about how to articulate this sense of “loser” and I think “doesn’t value the right things/concepts” is a big part of it
@clawfulneutral if you start digging it seems like everybody is a loser no matter how beautiful or accomplished. there are creative treatises on this, like Venture Brothers
@sun that does seem fitting for biological entities stuck in samsara
@sun @clawfulneutral how i learned to stop worrying and, if not be happy, at least stop despairing.
@sun now that I think of it, I wonder how much using the word in this way correlates specifically with the social-obliviousness-dominant flavor of autism 🤔
@sun @clawfulneutral Way better to be a pauper than to be embarrassing, off-putting, or *shudder* a redditor